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Major u.sair lines have called off. cruise lines with testing requirements. a small number of people on board tested positive for coronavirus and the ship was denied entry to two ports at caribbean islands. lets get to cnns laeyla santiago at a testing site. what are you seeing this monday morning? >> reporter: well, kaitlan, we are at one of the busiest sites here in south florida. when we arrived around 4:00 in the morning, the library of cars already wrapped around what is a large recreationa...

Criticism of this new cdc guidance from some public health experts, specifically because of the lack of testing requirements to come out of it. putting that aside for a momentc theres also been a lot of criticism from the general public, im sure youve been following that. people have been following public health guidance closely for the past two years in order to stay safe and healthy, people who have specifically come to trust you most of all, and some of them are responding to this guidance on...

Get out. now theyre basically saying you dont need it, but if you can find one, do it. i know what theyre trying to do here, trying to get as many people tested amidst a shortage of testing. would it be better to leave this aside and say no need to test? >> i think many of us in public health would put the testing requirements aside. you have to interpret the importance of the test. the fancy, best test, the pcr, it can remain positive for a very long time and youre perfectly fine. what the test...

Predeparture is widely expected that the predepa rtu re test is widely expected that the predeparture test element will be dropped as part of a review of the rules happening today. there are many in the travel industry who would like the government to go much further and get rid of both testing requirements, because they would argue that now omicron is so widely spread both within the uk and around the world, these measuresjust arent effective any more but whatever the government does decide to ...

Turning the corner on the omicron surge. but its too early to say for sure. >> the supreme court on thursday blocked the biden administrations sweeping vaccine mandate for larger businesses. but it did keep the administrations mandate for health care workers to get the shot. help us understand what that decision all means. >> well, as you know, this really has become a flash point in the country. the battle over vaccine mandates and the testing requirements. the u.s. supreme court weighing in an...

Recommends isolation time because it in half from 10 days to 5. could? the administration of focusing on business instead of science. >> what is it they will do? sound like this decision had as much to do with business and science. >> it had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. >> no testing requirements a return to work which has some airline and nurses unions in the move. doctor fauci says the rapid test might not tell the story. >> the antigen test dont have good...

Including myself to cover classrooms. either you love middle school or you dont. i had a fantastic time with the kids. >> reporter: we can bring up the chart of the disruptions across the country. some 5,000 districts now looked at disruptions over the last week. a day not able to offer in-person learning that is the highest of the school year and will see what happens as this next week gets under way. >> talk to me about how families and students are coping. >> reporter: it is difficult. so muc...

Upheld it and we will enforce that >> reporter: it all comes as the biden administration scrambles to fight a frustratingly resurgent pandemic, vaccine disinformation and a highly transmissible variant. while the most recent data suggests that omicron may be leveling off in some east coast cities, overall cases and hospitalizations remain high nationwide now the president is sending in the military, the hospitals in six hard hit states, including the cleveland clinic, the university of new mexic...

Restrictions for people entering the uk are to be dropped. after nearly two years of changing restrictions, they will all go. that means no tests or passenger locator forms for any passengers. 0ur travel correspondent, katy austin, has more. well, the transport secretary has announced that all remaining measures will go from four oclock on friday morning. testing requirements for fully vaccinated passengers coming into the uk were already dropped in february, and now, people who arent fully vacc...

This big funding bill that helps keeps the lights on and funds additional programs including the ukraine aid, more than $15 billion in fact, through the end of the fiscal year. as you say, the president, the democrats had to strip out the covid funding that the president asked for because of a last-minute snag. it was very much of a surprise to democrats in the final hours of this. so the white house today really underscoring the urgency of what theyre asking for by offering some very specific t...